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Substance Use Subcommittee reviews local services plan, workforce survey and service transitions
Summary
Jacob Parker Carver, chair of the Community Services Board’s Substance Use Subcommittee, reviewed the subcommittee’s local services plan goals, presented workforce-survey findings that show a severe staffing shortage, and discussed service transitions after the Alcohol and Drug Council closure.
Jacob Parker Carver, chair of the Tompkins County Community Services Board’s Substance Use Subcommittee, briefed the board on the subcommittee’s work to implement the county local services plan, citing a workforce shortage survey and several system-level challenges including the closure of the local Alcohol and Drug Council (ADC).
Carver, who also identified himself as the alcohol and other drug services coordinator for Cornell Health’s counseling services, said the subcommittee developed a survey of agencies receiving county and state pass-through dollars. He said the survey confirmed the workforce shortage is severe and that the high local cost of living compounds low reimbursement rates for behavioral-health workers.
“We collected some really good data,”…
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